Re: a really non-technical question, help?

Oracle licensing seems to vary heavily on a case by case basis. I have met people who got a '20% discount' and thought they got a deal and I met another guy who payed $8,000 for a 4 CPU server which included RAC(not per CPU).

You have to contact them and negotiate. I have heard that Oracle is cutting deals to smaller shops if you negotiate hard and threaten to go to another DB vendor.
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> > > sorry, folks, but I though as many production DBAs > as are on this list, I might be able to get an answer > to this question. What I need to know is how Oracle > licensing works on a hot-standby (e.g., a VCS failover node). > > In this case I'm thinking that the failover node will > never be running oracle *unless* the primary is dead. > Seems like a single system worht of CPUs to license > in my mind...any feedback ?